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And I hear the ITV show’s producers are braced for a backlash after Simon tore one girl group apart.

After booting the devastated girls off the show, he poached their lead singer for a group of previously rejected soloists.

Next stop for the panel is the judges’ houses round. But while Louis, Sharon and Nicole are jetting off to exotic locations, Simon’s hopes to lord it up at Highclere Castle in Berkshire, where Downton Abbey was filmed, have been dashed.

A source said: “It was felt Highclere wouldn’t be the right setting for Simon’s category.”